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...talk will have intermissions, pauses, breaks, and will need to be resumed and modified, according to circumstances, every few months or so. The outright ban--my initial negotiating position--may even break down into specific pleadings: No drinking while driving. No drinking with older boys. What an awful mess it's going...
...initiative as a fig leaf, and they're not impressed by the argument over developing countries - after all, the problem today is primarily a result of a century of economic activity, most of it in the industrialized world. The European position, essentially, is that "We made most of this mess; we must take the lead in cleaning it up." The Kyoto framers planned to bring the developing world into the treaty at a later stage...
...mess that the President is expected to sign this week is loaded with targeted tax breaks and maddening phase-ins and phase-outs--tax reductions that come and go like a spring afternoon. It contains some last-minute special-interest morsels, including one that may be a precursor to school vouchers. Most of the relief comes at the tail end of the 10-year plan--and the year after that, the whole thing disappears, restoring in 2011 the very same tax laws that were in force last April...
...back to college to get my stuff. I relapsed in 24 hours. I went home, started going to AA meetings. And continued to get drunk. Then I got a service position [at AA] and all I could think about was how I had this service position, I can't mess...
...reception, that obsession showed. Sherman was still sporting the beard that he grew during his expedition, which in his case was a good thing because that scruffy mess on his face filled him out. He?s a thin, wiry guy who runs marathons and enjoys "century" bike races. But after Everest, he?s twenty pounds lighter than normal. At least those little tufts sticking out of his cheeks gave some definition to his gaunt features. His beautiful pale blue eyes sat deep inside hollow eye sockets that were rimmed with black cuts created when his goggles froze to his face...